Here are the General's remarks pertinent to the "surge". The vast majority of the questions that followed were regarding Iranian weapons and Quds troops in Iraq. I suspect the media - in spite of vigorous denials by the administration - is trying to portray the US as on the brink of war with Iran. This allows Democrats - and Hillary Clinton in particular - to vociferously oppose this non-existent war. (To be fair, this also gets some conservatives very excited over the prospect of "taking out" Iran - their hopes will be dashed.)
By the way, reporters were so fixated on this issue they missed a more significant bit of intel regarding security operations in Iraq: "...we're all operating under the same instructions from General Abboud". That would be Lieutenant General Abboud Gambar of the Iraqi Army.